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TIL that dildos were invented over 25,000 years before the wheel

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RvYa TIL In Old English, ‘man’ was a gender neutral term. Males were known as 'wermen’ and females were known as 'wifmen’.
ROj1 TIL citizens in the United States can give up their citizenship at any time, becoming stateless.
J0dl TIL of Oliver Sipple, who saved then President Gerald Ford’s life from an assassin, was subsequently outed as gay by the press, disowned by his family and ultimately died regretting saving the President
OolmL TIL about "The Johnson Treatment", where President Lyndon Johnson used to urinate or expose his penis during conversations to establish dominance.
xVOMo TIL that the handrail around the turret in some early WW2 tanks is an antenna. The presence of a handrail antenna would reveal to the enemy that the tank is a command tank, which made it a primary target in the combat. Because of this, it was eventually replaced with a whip antenna.